The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-18

coMpaeueu, ana the place contains seven
store, four barrooms and eight coffee houses,
OF CARES. Nearly all of the operatives take
their meals at these restaurants, which are
redolent of garlic and kept by Cubans who
speak Spanish almost exclusively. Seven
Fights OF the people are foreigners.
V. MARTINEZ YBoR
Is the master spirit and head centre of the
place, and principal owner of the landed
property. The writer found him to be a
pleasant, affable gentleman of medium
statute, and with the aid of an interpreter
derived many Interesting facts from him re-
lating to the colony and the great industry
he represents
Ell PRINCIPE DE GALES,
cigar factory, owned and operated'by Ybor
q Co., employs 500 hands, with a weekly
pay roll Of $1,000. Nothing save pure Span
ish tobacco, imported in curious bark-cov-
cred bales from Cuba, is used on the premi-
ses. The output per month of cigars is
1850, 900, which are sold all over the Union
The very choicest article is manufactured,
some brands commanding 1Sc. apiece at
wholesale rates. Another factory, it issaid,
will soon be started here by a son Of the
senior proprietor.
SANCHEZ HAzA,
are also extensive manufacturers of cigars,
employing 200 hands and turning out 400, 900
per month. Their weekly pay roll is 81, 500,
and they, too, use nothing but the pure i'm
ported Spanish tobacco. All the houses of
the operatives are neat, well finished struc-
lures, and form quite town of themselves.
tits such enterprises as these that soon build
up city.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. S. A. Jones, the live editor of the
Tampa Courier and real estate agent, re-
ports property still on boom in and around
Tampa.
Mr.. John jackson, now 70 years Of age,
and one of the most respected citizens of the
community, is still able to attend to bust
ness.
I. FL. Krause, an extensive manufacturer
and dealer in carriages and wagons, has re-
sided in Tampa for thirty years.
j.. NJ Eddins, the popular architect, built
the Ybor City Chapel, and has had hand
In the construction of many of 1ampa's best
improvements. Mr.. NJ w. Bryan is the po-
lite manager of the main general store of
Miller & Henderson. There is an air of con-
tentment and assured prosperity about the
Tampa people which cannot fail to impress
the visitor. The arrival of the consort of
the steamer Mascotte, of the Cuba line,
with Mr.. Plant on board, was hailed with
every demonstration of joy. A brilliant re-
ception was given to the citizens on the decks
gentleman, which passed off with great
eclat.
KISSIMMEE,
The writer on his return trip stopped one
day at this unique town which is attracting
so large share of the public attention. The
Tropical Hotel was closed, but still afforded
sleeping accommodations for travellers,
while excellent meals, and lodging, too, may
be had with Mrs. E. E. Rushton at the Lake
House, which has changed hands and richly
deserves to be patronized.
One of the first persons we met was ex-
Mayor j. w. Aderholt, formerly of Macon,
Ga, but now engaged in the real estate bus
ness, and a prominent citizen here for six
years. From him the writer derived much
valuable information relating to the town.
Despite the dizziness of the times and unto
ward seasons Kissimmee has continued to
grow and develop steadily without a mo-
ments cessation.
Whether or not the grand scheme of
draining the lands adjacent to Lake Okla
chobee proves successful the fact is incon-
trovertible that the dredging operations
have lowered the waters of Lake Tohopeka-
hga from fiveto six fieet and reclaimed and
rendered araable vast acres of the recently
submerged soil. This is proven by the
flourishing plantations of vegetables and
sugar cane which greet the eye where,
three years ago nothing save, an expanse
of water and ''saw-grass, were to be seen.
At this writing, Capt. Rose, the agent of the
Diston Company, has pitched a crop of 2l0
acres of sugar cane, to be more than doubled
another year, which is nearly as high as a
mans head and as luxuriant as any in Cuba.
Every foot of this field was once submerged
to the depth of four feet The writer has
also seen mammoth specimens of cabbage,
beets and turnips raised upon this reclaimed
soil. One radish measured 80 inches in cir
conference, and an onion 9 1-2 inches.
When these lands are placed fairly upon
the market and come to be appreciated, Kis-
simmee will be the centre of one of the
wealthiest and most fertile sections in the
Union. Here the tendereSt vegetables
flourish all winter and the lake navigation
is every day becoming more important and
profitable. One hundred and fifty new
buildings have been erected during the past
year, and a feet of five steamboats, find
employment from the commerce of the
adjacent lakes. The last of these, the
Floradelphia, arrived from Philadelphia on
the train, simultaneously with the writer.
1t is a graceful and roomy craft intended to
ply daily between this place and the new
town whose name it bears, which has
recently been laid out on Kissimmee Lake,
twenty-eight miles south of Kjssinmee City.
The new candidate for metropolitan hon
ors is the bantling of the Floradelphia I'm
provement Company, of Philadelphia, Pa,
of which John L. Hill, of 800 Walnut street,
is General Manager and Treasurer, with
James Forest in charge of the main Office at
Kissimmee, assisted by w. l.. Douglass, the
superintendent of transportation for the
company. The new city is advantageously
situated, and will include an area of over
5000 acres, TO be graded and artistically
laid off into lots and squares, as required.
This is the way towns are made in Flor
ida, and it is surprising, with the aid of ma
lures gifts, what splendid results may be
accomplished by a few sagacious heads,
backed by a sufficient amount of capital.
Witness Orlando Tampa, Ocala, Palatka,
DeLand and other places.
NEW RAILROADS.
The Florida Midland and St. Clair
Abrams road from Tavares will reach ks
simmel in a few months and place her in
perfect communication with all parts of the
country.
Among the enterprising young men of
Kissimmee City the BRANDON brothers are
entitled to special mention. They built and
own the neat new Opera House and have
established large and lucrative mercantile
business.
BORN UNDER A LUCKY STAR.
The people of this plucky little city are
now jubilant over the passage of the act by
the Legislature creating the new county by
Osceola. That Kissimmee viii be made the
seat of Justice no one seems to dispute.
This will add no little to the inheritance and